[Ben Wolfinsohn]

yeah. about 4k. and everything in the project is coming off 6 photoshop files that are about 150megs each and 5 to 50 layers on each.

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

in general, if you can have at the end of your expression ” == 8″ and you can have a ” < 1″ but can you have both with a “or”?

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

works! thanks!

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

txt = “2,6,3,8,1,5,3,1,4,5,4,2”;
f = timeToFrames(time);
s = txt.split(“,”);
parseInt(s[Math.min(f,s.length-1)])

this script above you wrote works on the opacity of a solid. but when i try to apply it to a slider i attached to a null it gives me an error of –
class ‘array’ has no property or method named ‘-1’

when i turn on expressions for the slider it first looks like this before i put the script in –
effect(“m-shape”)(1)

thanks!

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

great. and how about this – can i have the position of an object pointing to a slider in the null, so when the slider goes to 1 the position is 140,140. and if the slider goes to 2 then the position goes to 145,145, and so on. so i can somehow manually put in the position and then the slider takes it there.
thanks!

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

ok. if I can’t do that, then how about this?

if i have 1 object and 4 nulls in a comp. and i want to be able to have the object follow the position and the scale of each null individually with a slider on a 5th null that allows you to change with of the 4 nulls its following. so if you took the slider on the 5th null to 1 the object would follow null 1 and if you took the slider to 3 it would follow the 3rd null.

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

the idea was if i built a project with a single 100 layer photoshop file in it, and using the photoshop file and the AE file as a template. so I can make many photoshop files, all with the same layers and layer names, import each photoshop file into a copy of that same AE project. so I do need to change the name of the photoshop file, or else I’d have to many files with the same names and it would cause problems. but yes, I would not ever change the names of the layers or the number of layers inside. only need to change the name of the file.

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

ok. I tried this and after I relink 1 layer in the psd file it does not automatically relink all other layers. I only added “_01” to the psd file name. its making me find each layer at a time. I do remember it used to automatically do the rest for me. but for some reason its not. any ideas?

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

wow, thats easy.
thanks!

[Ben Wolfinsohn]

another question –

I have a null object with a slider.
I have solid object layer with a checkbox I added to it and it is pointing to that null slider.
I want the check box to turn on when the slider slides to 1. when the slider slides to any other number I want it to turn off.
the current expression in my solid with the checkbox is –
comp(“head contol”).layer(“head contols view 1”).effect(“head-turn”)(“Slider”)

any ideas?
thanks